The distinction between your job changing and you changing is the one most people are not prepared for. Updating a resume is logistical. Rebuilding your sense of what you are worth without the external markers you used to rely on is a different kind of work entirely. The part about identity formation happening in places no one sees feels true in a way that most productivity frameworks are not equipped to address.
That line: reinvention always begins in the dark, is the most honest description of what the transition actually feels like from the inside.
Great perspective Jamie.
The distinction between your job changing and you changing is the one most people are not prepared for. Updating a resume is logistical. Rebuilding your sense of what you are worth without the external markers you used to rely on is a different kind of work entirely. The part about identity formation happening in places no one sees feels true in a way that most productivity frameworks are not equipped to address.
Veronica. Thanks for your deep insight.